Vsevolod will share how he managed to build a profitable B2B SaaS without investments, which is used by top scientific publishers and grant agencies. What decisions were correct and helped to build everything in conditions of limited resources? What decisions were wrong? He will also talk about how to best organize teamwork in such conditions and what microservices have to do with it.

In the age of AI, anyone can generate code — even your team lead or the baker next door. But who ensures its quality? This talk will show why TDD is more relevant than ever, how to tell a good test from a bad one, make AI write proper code from the start, and why discipline and architectural thinking save both your nerves and your projects.

This talk will show how to boost developer productivity with AI tools in Cursor — from automated code reading and writing to building custom AI teammates and end-to-end feature pipelines.

I’ll show practical approaches, common pitfalls, and ready-to-use templates with concise PHP snippets that let you run dozens of parallel features in one cluster, cut costs, and speed up CI.

I’ll share my experience in writing automated tests that help avoid surprises in production and explain how we integrate them with the testing system. At the same time, we’ll discuss whether documentation is really necessary if the tests already “speak” for the system.

Let’s talk about long-running processes in PHP: is there life with API demons in production, what best practices exist and why they’re not always the best, and what exactly to focus on when developing and running them.

Half a year of trial and error with AI across different tasks and technologies: we’ll go through current tools, approaches, and recommendations. What works and what doesn’t. From the wow-effect in demos to wasted days on 'vibecoding'.

A discussion with representatives of high-risk systems about why security architecture should be incorporated at the design and development stage, rather than added after release into production. We will talk about the risks of delayed implementation of controls, common security illusions, and practical approaches to integrating security practices into the work of product teams.

How can you thrive in an industry transformed by AI? This talk covers research and hands-on demos to help secure your career and leverage AI for productivity and growth.